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-specific activities, and about one-third the level of public spending on health. The level of public spending for nutrition is similar in …This study summarizes estimates and lessons learned from application of the scaling up nutrition (SUN) methodology to … assess public financing for nutrition in Bhutan. Using Bhutan's classification of nutrition interventions, per capita public …
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This study aims to assess the public financing for nutrition in Sri Lanka. The primary purpose is to understand the … size and share of public investments in nutrition relative to the overall level of public expenditure in the country …. Second, it discusses whether the nutrition interventions in which the government budget is spent are in line with the global …
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El Salvador is in a nutrition transition. In the past 20 years, stunting rates have declined by 25 percent in young …
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safety net program, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), has a great potential to improve nutrition outcomes of … children living in poverty, by providing cash assistance conditional upon their health check-ups and growth monitoring and … raising caregiver's knowledge and awareness on nutrition through family development sessions. There was strong evidence of the …
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-- How water and sanitation can improve nutrition outcomes -- Achievements in the water and sanitation sector …
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The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20 percent prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, whipworm, and roundworm). There is consensus that the relevant deworming drugs are safe and...
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The SecureNutrition Series on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection is intended to augment the available guidance on … improving nutrition through multisectoral approaches, and inform ongoing and future efforts to improve nutrition outcomes … through investments in the social protection sector. Since publication of the World Bank's 'Improving Nutrition Through …
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international community around improving nutrition-the 176 members of the World Health Assembly endorsed the first-ever global … global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012-in an effort to rally the … nutrition targets, focusing on six areas: stunting, anemia, low birthweight, childhood overweight, breastfeeding, and wasting …
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The Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programs, convened by SecureNutrition and the Russian … Federation, brought together 150 donors, implementers, and country leaders to identify practical ways to link the nutrition and …
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